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Old 03-17-2008
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How to find user/login id?
It seems like not all Unix have whoami. What is the alterate way to display just the login id?

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Most shells have a USER envrionment variable.
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echo $USER
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try using id
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Thanks .. i will try it out.
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FYI, I stumbled upon 'logname' command and it gave me the user id.

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if you login as jdoe and then do su - tclark, then echo $USER and logname differ in their output

echo $USER would show tclark while logname would tell you jdoe
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